Red Quinoa with Pistachios
A nutritious and flavorful dish combining nutty red quinoa with fresh herbs and crunchy pistachios. This Mediterranean-inspired side dish is enhanced with shallots and finished with parsley and mint.
Ingredients
- •1 tablespoon olive oil
- •1 whole shallot
- •1 to taste salt and pepper
- •1 cup red quinoa
- •1½ cups chicken broth
- •¼ cup raw pistachios
- •3 tablespoons flat-leaf parsley
- •1 tablespoon fresh mint
Cooking Instructions
- 1.
Heat oil in a medium saucepan over medium heat. Add shallot, season with salt and pepper, and cook, stirring occasionally, until soft, about 5 minutes. Add quinoa and cook, stirring frequently, until quinoa starts to toast and smell nutty, about 5 minutes. Add chicken broth and bring to a boil.
10 min
- 2.
Stir in quinoa, reduce heat to low, cover, and simmer gently until quinoa is tender, 25-30 minutes (15 if using white quinoa). Remove pan from heat, fluff quinoa with a fork. Cover; let stand for 5 minutes.
35 min
- 3.
Fold pistachios, parsley, and mint into quinoa. Season with salt and pepper.
5 min